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APTOPIX Greece Migrants

A woman hold a cooking pot as she prepares food near a makeshift fire in a railway repairs shed where people have set up their tents at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on Monday, May 9, 2016. About 54,000 refugees and migrants are currently stranded in Greece as 10,000 are camped in Idomeni, after the European Union and Turkey reached a deal designed to stem the flow of refugees into Europeís prosperous heartland. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Russia Victory Day

WWII veteran Dmitry Fillipov, 90, walks in Red Square after the Victory Day parade marking 71 years after the victory in WWII, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine Victory Day

A boy enjoys himself laying on two tank barrels against the background of the WWII memorial in Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Victory Day Monday, May 9, 2016. Ukrainians mark the 71st anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany as a national holiday. (AP Photo/(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

New Jersey Daily Life

People watch for the sunrise near the Boardwalk Monday, May 9, 2016 in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

APTOPIX Greece Migrants

Syrian girls play tic-tac-toe on a train wagon at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on Monday, May 9, 2016. About 54,000 refugees and migrants are currently stranded in Greece as 10,000 are camped in Idomeni, after the European Union and Turkey reached a deal designed to stem the flow of refugees into Europeís prosperous heartland. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

APTOPIX Russia Mercury Sun Transit

The transit of Mercury, left, in front of the Sun is seen from St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2016. The photo was taken through a hydrogen-alpha (H-alpha) narrow spectrum solar telescope that permits examination of the sun's protuberances and showing the surface activity. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

APTOPIX Kenya Electoral Commission

A riot policeman fires tear gas towards opposition supporters during a protest in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Monday, May 9, 2016. Kenyan police have tear-gassed opposition supporters after some pelted police with rocks during a protest demanding the disbandment of the electoral authority over alleged bias and corruption. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Pakistan Mass Marriage

Pakistani brides attend a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi, Pakistan Monday, May 9, 2016. The mass marriage ceremony of 135 couples was organized and funded by a local non governmental organization for people who were unable to afford their own ceremony. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Ukraine Victory Day

Members of the Ukrainian Fund 'Memory' places the remains of one of the 6 Soviet soldiers killed during World War II in a coffin for reburial in a village of Yurivka, some 25 km south west of capital Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, May 9, 2016. Ukraine is marking the 71st anniversary of Victory in World War II. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Pakistan Mass Marriage

A Pakistani bride attends a mass wedding ceremony in Karachi, Pakistan Monday, May 9, 2016. The mass marriage ceremony of 135 couples was organized and funded by a local non governmental organization for people who were unable to afford their own ceremony. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

APTOPIX Severe Weather

This image made from a video taken through a car window shows a tornado near Wynnewood, Okla., Monday, May 9, 2016. A broad tornado capable of leaving "catastrophic" damage in its wake churned across the Oklahoma landscape Monday, prompting forecasters to declare a tornado emergency for two communities directly in its path. (Hayden Mahan via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Russia Victory Day Parade

Russian Su-24 bombers fly during the Victory Day military parade marking 71 years after the victory in WWII in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Georgia Victory Day

A Georgian man holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin at a meeting of WWII veterans during celebrations marking the 71st anniversary of the victory over the Nazi Germany in World War II, in Victory Park, Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

Pennsylvania Daily Life

Visitors to Point State Park are silhouetted against a fountain at the confluence of the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio rivers in downtown Pittsburgh, Sunday, May 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

APTOPIX Philippines Elections

A Filipino man votes at a polling center in Manila, Philippines on Monday, May 9, 2016. Millions of Filipinos went to election centers Monday to pick a new president, vice president and thousands of other officials amid tight security across the country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Japan Daily Life

A man with an umbrella eats snacks on a bench at Hibiya Park in Tokyo, Monday, May 9, 2016. The public park is located in the heart of the capital. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

North Korea Party Congress

The portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il hang inside the convention hall of the April 25 House of Culture where the party congress is held in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, May 9, 2016. North Koreaís ruling-party congress on Monday announced a new title for Kim Jong Un, center, party chairman, in a move that highlights how the authoritarian countryís first congress in 36 years is aimed at bolstering the young leader. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

North Korea Party Congress

Party representatives sit in the hall of the April 25 House of Culture during the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, May 9, 2016. North Korea has brought in more than 100 journalists from around the world to make sure that the 7th Congress of its ruling Workers' Party gets global attention. Four days into the event, they allowed a small number of foreign journalists into the convention hall where the congress was taking place. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

North Korea Party Congress

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, acknowledges applause from senior leaders and party representatives upon his arrival for the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, May 9, 2016. North Korea's ruling-party congress on Monday announced a new title for Kim, party chairman, in a move that highlights how the authoritarian country's first congress in 36 years is aimed at bolstering the young leader. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

APTOPIX Pakistan Weather

A Pakistani boy jumps into a canal to cool himself off, Monday, May 9, 2016 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Many cities in Pakistan are facing heat wave conditions with temperatures reaching 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in some places. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

North Korea Party Congress

A North Korean peeks over the counter from where she is working at the Kim Jong Suk silk mill to look at foreign journalists visiting the mill during a press tour on Monday, May 9, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Only about 30 of the more than 100 invited journalists brought into the country to cover the biggest political event in North Korea in decades have been allowed inside the meeting hall to see the proceedings, Monday. Officials have kept the foreign media busy with trips around Pyongyang to show them places North Korea wants them to see. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Mideast Israel Independence Day

Israeli soldiers watch from behind the stage during a rehearsal of the upcoming ceremony for Israel's Independence Day in Jerusalem, Monday, May 9, 2016. Israel will celebrate the 68th anniversary of the founding of the state beginning at sundown Wednesday through Thursday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

APTOPIX World of Cons

In this Sunday, May 8, 2016, photo, drag queens Kim Chi, left, and Naomi Smalls, third from left, pose with a fan while other admirers wait for a chance for a selfie with the two celebrities during RuPaul's DragCon at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. The rows of more than 230 vendors at DragCon hawking merchandise, from $20 T-shirts to $2,000 gowns, and the drag devotees purchasing it all is the latest example of the proliferation of fan conventions, the once geeky get-togethers that have morphed into a big business. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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